CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is what WordPress uses to define its visual appearance. Every WordPress theme will use a CSS file and the main style sheet is typically called style.css and is normally found by clicking on Appearance> Editor in the WordPress admin area. CSS is in fact very easy to learn and with sometime invested, you can understand the basics of CSS and how customise a blogs appearance.

Here’s examples of what you can customize by updating a themes CSS:

Text size, colour, alignment and font

Colours of links

Background colours

Sizing, aligning and border of images

Listing bullet points

Sizing, alignment and shading of tables

In this video I will show you a simple way to customize your blog by making changes using Google Inspect Element and the WordPress CSS Editors.

This tutorial is for WordPress bloggers who like to add multiple images to their blog posts. Adding images to WordPress blog posts can take time. You have to first edit the image and then add it to the WordPress media library before you can insert the image into a post or page. Furthermore, by using the following approach, you can easily edit images as opposed to editing images in a graphics editor such as Photoshop.

In this post, I will explain how you can cut and paste an image into WordPress (WordPress does not permit you to insert images by pasting as standard) and introduce you to an awesome screen capture desktop application.

I’m going to show you how you can insert and edit an image from your desktop screen into a WordPress page or post within seconds and without the need of a graphics editor.

Heres how…

Firstly, you need to install and activate the OnePress Image Elevator WordPress plugin and download the desktop screen capture application Screen Shooter. The OnePress Elevator plugin allows you to paste images into a WordPress blog post or page. Screen Shooter is a clever application designed to take a screenshot of any part of a desktop screen.

To use Screen Shooter you can either click “Screenshot” or press “F9”, then select the area of the screen you want to capture and the area becomes an image stored in the clipboard.

If you click “Draw’ on the menu, you can add various shapes, text or highlight parts of the image in seconds. As you can see in the image above, I used the “Ellipse” feature to add a circle around “Screenshot”. Screen Shooter will also store the image on their server and a URL for this stored image is displayed. You can then share this URL so anyone can see your screenshot.

Now all you need to do is right click and copy and paste the image using the keyboard shortcut “CTRL+V” into your blog post or page.

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Too many WordPress blog owners who use social sharing buttons on their website do not set up these social buttons correctly. We all know WordPress is an awesome platform to build websites on and there’s a plethora of plugins available to install. The majority of the social sharing plugins allow you to set them up so that when someone shares an article on your website on Twitter in the form of a tweet, you the author or blog owner receives credit on Twitter. I guarantee that most blog owners do not have their social plugin set up in this way. It’s probably best I describe in more detail exactly what I mean.

Let’s imagine a visitor on your blog absolutely loves your article and they see the ‘Share on Twitter’ button at the bottom of the post.

The visitor clicks the ‘Share on Twitter’ button and is directed to their Twitter account with the article link ready to share.

Can you see the problem? The problem is the Twitter handle of the author or blog owner is missing. If the blog owner had set up their social sharing plugin correctly by adding their Twitter handle, the shared post would look like this. Notice @darren_ackers is at the end of the shared link. So now when someone shares an article on my blog, I will get notified by Twitter and I can reach out and thank the person who tweeted about my article.

Introducing WP Social

I use the plugin WP Social on my WordPress site to add social sharing buttons to each of my posts. The WP Social plugin is straightforward and very simple to configure. Once you install the plugin, click on ‘Settings’ in the WordPress menu and select WP Social. Scroll to the bottom and add your Twitter handle in the ‘Twitter Username’ field.

Now when someone shares an article on your blog, you can do the right thing by reaching out, thanking them and build a relationship with this loyal visitor to your blog.